"Their great concern has always been that they get a budgeted amount each year and they can't actually plan for the future," he said.

"So they might go through a process of repairing potholes around the network but won't be able to do the resealing of the roads because they don't know what's going to happen with next year's budget or the one after that."

The chief executive of VicRoads, Gary Liddle, says the main road leading into Daylesford from Melbourne is just one example of long-term upgrades that can now go ahead.

"The plan here is to patch this bit of road, so that's a matter of a few thousand dollars but then to seal it in the coming summer so that's probably 80-90 thousand dollars," he said.

"There's hundreds of these areas of roads around the state that this money will enable us to fix."